LWCC presents $10,000 donation to Community Pride Foundation

LAKE COUNTY -- The Lakeport Women's Civic Club LWCC) recently presented a check for $10,000 to the Lake Community Pride Foundation (LCPF), which provides housing and other services for at-risk youths in Lake County.

LCPF Director Bill MacDougall was on hand to accept the donation at the LWCC meeting on Feb. 1 at the Lakeside Family Fun Center in Lakeport.

Also in attendance were LWCC president-elect Toni Stewart and Pride Foundation Safe Home residents Laura Onate Solis and Lacey O'Dell, who said the home provides them a nurturing environment in which they have thrived. The girls are honor roll students at their respective schools.

Aaron Moore and Ittaly Heart are the supervisors at the Pride Foundation Safe Home, providing positive adult role models.

In saying "thank you" to the foundation, MacDougall said the residence provides "a safe, stable and appropriate living environment" for Lake County youth "who have no one to turn to." MacDougall said such "contributions support a program that provides this vital link in our community."